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Books Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
- My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
- I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.
- Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you…
- I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than…
- I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
- I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
- Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
- Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change.' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
- Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were…
- I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.
- Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I…
- Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
- Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a…
- Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do…
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- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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